jacaranda

• “The French have given the name jacaranda to rose-wood, under the idea that the plant called jacaranda by the Brazilians yields it, which is not the case; "the same word has perhaps been the origin of palisander -- palixander, badly written.”

  The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants

• “Olive, Cyprus and eucalyptus trees give shape and shade; jasmine, rosemary and jacaranda perfume the entire estate.”

  What Does A $75 Million Luxury House Look Like?

• “In this film, Williams ends up in Heaven, and I particularly flash back to brilliant hues, and, in particular, a blue jacaranda tree, the second favorite of my wife Pearl.”

  The Huffington Post: Patrick Takahashi: Suicide Dreams

• “There are trees and lots of bugambilla and jacaranda, and a modest weekly market tucked in there.”

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• “My NaNo last year made reference to the jacaranda trees here in Brisbane and is a post environmental apocalyptic version of Brisbane called New Brisbane (no points for ingenuity!).”

  Know Your Setting « Write Anything

• “The street is lined with jacaranda trees that leave purple droppings everywhere, in the fall the flowers turn yellow and orange, they leave sap on the cars.”

  Fictionaut: Yukon Mining Company

• “It had a brown picket fence to match, a straight brick walk, some tall trees, jacaranda and camphor, spreading over a clipped green lawn.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shortcut Man

• “The thing I wait around for is the summer blooming of the jacaranda trees — they spread out everywhere and there are these big splashes of purple across the landscape.”

  An Interview with Angela Slatter

• “Perched on a cow-skin chair under a jacaranda tree in a village in Chibombo, a rural province abutting urban Kabwe, the softly spoken single mother explains how a 100,000 Kwacha about £13 loan kickstarted a profitable confectionery trade.”

  The Guardian: Zambia's young people want to work

• “He reached out and touched the cool, smooth surface of the massive door frame, a deep jacaranda carved in the likeness of the naked goddess Maril.”

  Fictionaut: G'lder

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